To the editor:Congratulations to the Fairfield Community for your No. 7 position in the Smithsonian Magazine?s Best Small Towns ranking! You certainly deserve the recognition.The trait that I am most impressed with is ?warm and friendly.? There are times this is taken for granted around here. We tend to think most folks in most places are ?warm and friendly.? Not always so. We do shine at that and ... it ...
To the editor:It has always been popular in many countries to justify the practice of passing on the debts incurred by one generation to the next for payment. Should one generation impose its debts on the next? This was not the view of the American Founding Fathers. They knew that the wars, economic problems and debts of one generation should be paid for by the generation which incurred them. They wanted the ...
To the editor:Thanks be to God for patriots like James Lee Elliott [?American History Matters,? Page 4, March 14].I have written many letters in the same vein as Mr. Elliott. My letters always go over the measly 500-word limit, so I haven?t sent them. However, I will now rededicate myself to better editing and get on with completing them.Everything Mr. Elliott so gently and eloquently wrote is true; I?ve ...
To the editor: Ron Stearns (?Homosexuality shouldn?t be condoned,? Dec. 22) is not describing how the world really works. He claims ?it is the parents who teach their children prejudice.? No, you cannot evade responsibility that easily. It is ALL adult authority figures who teach children by words and example to despise, mock and bully: teachers, coaches, shopkeepers, clerics, politicians, TV personalities ...
To the editor:In his Dec. 22nd letter to the editor [?Homosexuality shouldn?t be condoned?], Ron Stearns argues that homosexuality is simply a matter of bad behavior which ought to be corrected. While his intentions seem pure and gentle, his message is a hurtful and alienating one ? emanating from a fundamental misconception of homosexuality.Mister Stearns begins by detesting abuse and promoting kindness, a ...
To the editor:Why is Ron Paul the only choice for president?To understand one has to step back and look at his candidacy from an historical perspective. The American Revolution was perhaps the most enlightened moment in the evolution of political governance. Our country was blessed with an opportunity to throw off the yokes of tyrannical government, and start from scratch.The principles the founders ...
To the editor:I have no doubt that our country and the world are at a crossroads with the erosion of and attack on traditional family values. We must have the courage of our convictions to protect mankind and wisely use the earth and it?s resources.The first-in-the-nation Iowa Caucus will be held on Tuesday Jan. 3, at the Fairfield High School at 6:30 p.m. for Democrats and at 7 p.m. for Republicans. You ...
To the editor:My public relations friend Marc thought my letter of Sept. 22 [?Paul devoted to freedom of individual?] remained unclear regarding Ron Paul as a representative of natural law. I solved the problem by making clear how the nature of the mind itself calls for a freedom philosophy as follows.Every man is an island unto himself. Even if false spiritually, this is true mentally, because we cannot ...
To the editor:We would love a regular column devoted to gardening of veggies and flowers, etc. written by the local Master Gardeners. Our first question would be about taking care of a Vole, not Mole, problem. For years we have planted tulips only to have no bulbs appear because the voles had eaten them over the winter/spring time. Last year we read of putting mothballs on top of where you planted any spring ...
The Ledger?s regular driver who takes papers to Van Buren County everyday has been under the weather and it was my turn to fill in yesterday.Dick Corry has been running the Birmingham, Stockport and Keosauqua route for years. He?s so reliable it?s easy to forget what he does.So I took off for Birmingham at 2:50 p.m. knowing that I had to be in Keosauqua before 3:45 p.m. when the post office closes down ...
To the editor:DID YOU GO TO THE WEDDING??The date: Dec. 3, l981, Sunday, Thirty years ago.Scheduled time: 1:30 p.m., actually happened 1.5 hours late.The place: New $750,000 dome where laborers worked furiously on MIU campus to complete the 24,000 square foot women?s golden dome in time for the wedding.The groom: Douglas James Henning age 34, born in Winnipeg Canada in l974 started practice of TM ...
I like mysteries that can be figured out quickly.Last week my morning shower water pressure at Southgate was a little more than a trickle. I was more concerned about a water heater going bad than the annoyance of a less-than-satisfying shower.When I pulled out of the Southgate drive at 7 a.m., the ditches on the east side of Highway 1 were filled with water. I assumed it rained a little more than I thought ...
To the editor:Readers, I want you to consider the voices of those that you do not hear, to listen for the sounds of nature that are diminishing or no longer there. They have been waning for decades and in one century alone, have disappeared forever from the planet.During this summer, I kept my eye on the telephone wire near my house where at least three or more mourning doves sat each day. Sometime in very ...
The Nielsen Company telemarketer is my new best friend ? just check the call log on my cell phone. Line after line of missed calls from the company?s 800 number fill the little screen.I?m already participating ? diligently, I might add ? in the Nielsen survey; I don?t feel obligated to answer their incessant calls as well.For the past week, I?ve been following the simple instructions in their little ...
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